Happy April 26th....a beautiful morning it was and day it has been. I slept like a dead person...getting full 8 hours of uninterrupted (no bathroom wake up calls) sleep. Felt so good. Up at 8 AM, bathed, fixed breakfast for all and out the door by 9:30 AM. Wonderful! We did play some cards until about 10:30 PM...naturally I won Crowns. Actually it is pretty rare that win.
Upon leaving, we headed to Wheelz of Hilton Head Island to rent some bikes. Finding the place was really easy. We are staying on the North end of the island off of Folly Field Road. And the bike shop and where we wanted to ride was on the South end...about a 6 mile drive. The bikes at Wheelz are awesome compared to the bikes we rented on South Padre Island a few months back pre-Christmas. Kim rented an electric bike which is so cool ... more to come on that. We paid about 15 per bike....electric was $30. It was supposed to be for 4 hours but the guy giving us the bikes said have them back before dark. He said he had a ton of bikes so told not to worry about it. So off we went....to the beach. We wanted to ride in the wealthy area of Sandpiper area. We wanted to ride out to the Lighthouse in Harbor Town. But because only owners and guests can go in and out of this area, you have to go to the beach and ride on the beach and then cut into this area. So that is what we did. It was a great ride on the beach. There were quite a few people already out enjoying the sun and waves. The wind was at our back and the breeze was so cool and refreshing. We were on the beach for about 3 miles. Once we came to the Sandpiper Beach Club, we cut in land and headed to Harbor Town...which is just an area of small shops and this Lighthouse.
The Lighthouse was under some construction all around it. We could have gone up it...but chose not to. We went out on the pier where we could see some holes on the golf course where the RBC Heritage tour is played each year. Beautiful course.....beautiful area with all the water and fancy boats. While on the pier, dolphins surfaced many times as they cruised around in the bay. That was kind of treat. As we’ve been riding, we’ve been looking for alligators. None seen yet.
After spending some time at the Lighthouse, we decided to go to The Low Country Backyard Restaurant. This was recommend to us by Scott and Michelle Hayden who had recently been here. Wow...what a good recommendation that was. Really good food. The fried green tomatoes were amazing. And the crab dip and pita chips were equally good. All of it was so good.
The ride back to the bike shop was about 10 minutes. It was almost 2 PM when we returned the bikes. But first, we all had to try the electric bike. It was amazing. You start pedaling and then the battery kicks in and away you go. You have to pedal to keep going but you don’t have to pedal much. It was pretty cool...I have to say.
We next headed to ‘Just Towels’.... a towel imprinting business here to see if they have Turkish Bath Towels. This was a print shop....felt like a Chinese migrant sweat shop where slave labor was provided to print on everything made of material. We had to ask where the ‘store’ was. Well...no real store...they did have a little show room. But, no Turkish Bath Towels. I’ll have to go to Turkey, I guess, to get a couple of towels.
I’m back at the condo now writing this. We are lounging a bit and will soon be heading to the pool to hang out and enjoy that. Fun day so far!
The pool area was very nice. Nice big pool, big hot tub, etc.. We stayed there for a couple of hours swimming, lounging and just visiting. It was really a nice way to relax and spend the afternoon. We figure we’ll have lots of beach time the next 3 days at Myrtle Beach. But while at the pool, I heard a woman say to her friends that she had just had lunch at her favorite restaurant which was called Fishcamp. so we looked it up online and it looked amazing. So after cleaning up, off to Fishcamp we went. It was rarely close. But it is a popular place....we had to wait an hour. So we got our names in and they would text us. To kill time, we ended up walking out on a pier, driving around and so on. The bar area had a guy playing music. So I eventually went back there and listened. It was pretty busy. But as the sun went down, so did our body temperatures. We got so cold. But nothing that we could do. The food was a amazing. We had some calamari and then split an amazing seafood pasta. Denise wanted their bread pudding, even tried to place her order before her food. But then she told the gal to wait until after we ate. So when that time came, she ordered the pudding. Unfortunately our server returned and told us they were out of it. Bummer. But, being the kind of guy I am (and Kim), we drove to another restaurant (Hudson’s Dockside) and there they found some bread pudding. It was pretty good.
We are now stuffed, tired and ready to go to bed. Tomorrow we leave Hilton Head and head north to Myrtle Beach.
Pictures:
Harbor Town Lighthouse on Hilton Head Island....
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